Handicapping the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards

December 17, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

The finalists for the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards have been announced and it looks like a very good crop of contenders this year. Some of these people I know very well, some I have only briefly met, and some I have heard of but that is about it. I sent in my nominations a couple months ago [...]

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What is Traffic Geyser?

December 15, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

To start out let me get this out of the way: My company is one of the partners in Traffic Geyser. There are three of us partners so yeah, this post might be a bit biased. I will try to keep it objective and not make it totally sound like a sales pitch and hopefully [...]

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7 Reasons I am Thankful to be an Affiliate

November 25, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

It is always easy to write a blog post complaining about something, pointing out a problem, spouting off on nebulous ideas, and stuff like that but since tomorrow is Thanksgiving I decided to sit back and think of some of the reasons I am thankful to be in the industry I am in so I decided [...]

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Affiliate Managers who Get It

November 5, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

Over the years I have worked with dozens, maybe even hundreds of affiliate managers and they range from awesome to terrible. Some of them get it and some of them are totally missing the mark with their efforts.
So what makes a good affiliate manager?  Here are a few things I think an affiliate manager should [...]

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Shareasale ThinkTank09: Epic Win!

October 27, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

Shareasale Think Tank 09: What an amazing weekend. Shareasale once again blew the roof off the joint with another great ThinkTank.
If you aren’t familiar with the Shareasale Thinktank I will give a brief overview. It is basically a conference where Shareasale brings in some of the merchants that work with them, some great OPMs, and [...]

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How good is Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk?

October 17, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

Let me start off by saying I read VERY few books. I can probably count the number of books I have read in the past few years on my fingers. Maybe it is my short attention span, maybe it is the fact that in general I find reading for more than 5 or 10 minutes [...]

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Real Sports Fans Wear Pink

October 7, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

Help me help others
Since October is breast cancer awareness month I decided to do something I have never tried before.  I wanted to set up an affiliate site for the purpose of raising money for a charity. I know there are many affiliate marketers who do a lot of work for various charities and I [...]

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Merchant Restrictions on their Affiliates

September 17, 2009 Uncategorized

Throughout my years as an affiliate marketer I have seen all sorts of different terms of service, marketing restrictions, prohibited keywords, etc. from the merchants I work with. Some of these restrictions are good for both the affiliate and the merchant and some are just outright stupid for one or both parties.  Let me break [...]

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Affiliate Summit East Recap

August 14, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

Back from Affiliate Summit East in New York and my head is still spinning.  Between all the networking, learning, new ideas, new friends I met, old friends I saw again, some very late nights, and an overall great time I am just starting to get back in the swing of things.
I have been trying to [...]

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Prepping for Affiliate Summit

August 3, 2009 Affiliate Stuff

With just 4 days until I hop on a plane to New York for Affiliate Summit East I am in the middle of getting my last minute preperations done. I have most things set to go but still have a few minor details to get finished.
The last week has been pretty busy for me.  Last [...]

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